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Postby H. erectus » Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:32 pm
Fred de Groot Joep thanks for the opportunity. In the past, when sanparks were running and operating the facilities there never seemed to be any issue of visitors occupying platform space!!!??, although there were questionable situations about quality and service and so so forth!!! Sanparks then embarked on a mission that would satisfy all namely commercialization!! This methodology would satisfy all, supposedly as according to .gov standards and practice!!!?? It's very simple Joep, the situation on that stoep. By inviting private franchise to solve a problem you are at the same time inviting their code of conduct!!! Let's be fair here, the franchises are a remarkable improvement to what there was..in fact only goes to show the ineptness of the custodian. Though there is a remarkable improvement in customer service, most unfortunately it stands to reason that the franchisee brings with it a code of conduct that will secure itself a profit at end of day. Them not into game viewing, rather more into shifting bums across their chairs the more the merrier. Dear friend, if your park was such a good prospect for profit, then why are all your camps not serviced appropriately?? Joep you ask, "I am keen to understand how you see the solution", dear friend a sorry state of affairs you practice in!! Relying on private enterprise to make ends meets, yet managing a flagship park. I am baffled by this situation!!

I see not much has changed in my absence...

H. has always been working, Sprocks1

Sprocky wrote:I see not much has changed in my absence...

Well yes and no, will seem rather a stupid remark, however looking
from both sides down,, Sanparks seem to have achieved much local
reprieve in establishing customer service, yet in the bigger picture,
taken another step backward in the process of self destruction, this
includes conservation responsibility!!!

Well, SP have dabbled in BEE companies for years, which proved a failure. The new franchises are profit oriented and progressively service - lite, IMO, as the restaurants are isolated. Meanwhile profits leave SANParks.

But if one takes the new Tshokwane and Afsaal, a compromise much better?

But for sure RP, in the short term!!!

Sanparks have always had the opportunity but lost
the plot by way of politics, politics a"slapgat" avenue
in this day and age where we live!!

In the long term, slowly but surely, national heritage
will go to waste!! Even if only it seemed at time,
"the right thing to do"!!!

Had a conversation with a prominent person in this debacle,..

this will require some serious fallback into past communique
with all involved!!

I remain steadfast in belief that the approval from .gov remains
subject to amendment, un- approved, until further mitigating
argument will deem the action correct!!!

We refer to waste disposal and comprehensive traffic impact
assessments !! Still to be concocted by the developer/consultant,
.......

Ok, H.!

As you see fit!

Many of us don't follow social media?

Richprins wrote:Many of us don't follow social media?

Allow me in trying to retract you from the bushes,..

Penny Legg
11 October at 13:31

Why are Mugg and Bean stopping people walking to the railing at Lower Sabie ? I thought this issue had been resolved? ??

Ken Barker Fred? U r changing the subject so this issue can be swept under the carpet, i rest my case, have a wonderful evening
Like · Reply · 12 October at 19:52
Fred de Groot
Fred de Groot Ken typical of the authority, isolating little issues, making them more manageable toward "under the carpet",..call me a high-jacker!!! just perhaps in all good faith for other!!
Like · Reply · 1 · 12 October at 20:11
Joep Stevens
Joep Stevens I am keen to understand how you see the solution? I have clarified that non-patrons are welcome to go an look at the railing.

Should we now not allow this, because some don't want to get disturbed when they wear their patron hat?
Like · Reply · 6 · 12 October at 20:28
Debbie Carr Donald
Debbie Carr Donald Joep Stevens somewhere I seem to have missed a post. If patrons are welcome at the railing then I have no issue at all . As I have also said in earlier posts I have not experienced a problem at all since M&B have opened and have been both a patron there and merely someone seeing what was at the river. Thanks

Fred de Groot
Fred de Groot Joep thanks for the opportunity. In the past, when sanparks were running and operating the facilities there never seemed to be any issue of visitors occupying platform space!!!??, although there were questionable situations about quality and service and so so forth!!! Sanparks then embarked on a mission that would satisfy all namely commercialization!! This methodology would satisfy all, supposedly as according to .gov standards and practice!!!?? It's very simple Joep, the situation on that stoep. By inviting private franchise to solve a problem you are at the same time inviting their code of conduct!!! Let's be fair here, the franchises are a remarkable improvement to what there was..in fact only goes to show the ineptness of the custodian. Though there is a remarkable improvement in customer service, most unfortunately it stands to reason that the franchisee brings with it a code of conduct that will secure itself a profit at end of day. Them not into game viewing, rather more into shifting bums across their chairs the more the merrier. Dear friend, if your park was such a good prospect for profit, then why are all your camps not serviced appropriately?? Joep you ask, "I am keen to understand how you see the solution", dear friend a sorry state of affairs you practice in!! Relying on private enterprise to make ends meets, yet managing a flagship park. I am baffled by this situation!!

Joep Stevens The deck area in front of Mugg & Bean Lower Sabie is the allocated exclusive commercial area for the operator, just as it is that for the Cattle Baron at Skukuza. The operators are accommodating in that, should I as a non-patron walk onto the deck and have a quick look, no big deal, I might even change my mind and have a cup of coffee and become a patron! Can we just (as non-patrons) be sensitive to patrons and operators? Would I want to stand in someone's space that are eating - No! If I now wish to spend longer time perhaps photographing something I would move off the deck - next to restaurant at Lower Sabie on walkway to tented area and there I am in no-ones way. Skukuza same. Can we just be sensitive and flexible and not try and put everything into black or white boxes?

Hmmmm....... do these franchises really make large profits for Sanparks apart from mugging visitors with their exhorbitantly expensive prices